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  1. I don’t think Bochy would have come out of retirement for just anyone. He and Chris Young had a history together from their days with the Padres.
  2. So Rangers stadium gets a big boost for being 2 miles from the city center? The algorithm doesn't know that Arlington's city center is a drugstore, a post office, two or three antique shops, and a Dairy Queen.
  3. Rangers-Yankees at old Arlington Stadium, 1972. I was 8. All I remember about the game was Pete Broberg was the Texas starter. And it was cap night.
  4. Texans generally just hate yankees. And by that I mean everyone north of Amarillo.
  5. Aside from the money Texas trades their 32 yr old utility guy for the A’s 9th ranked prospect (according to MLBpipeline) and a pitching prospect. Elvis gets a chance to start for a contender (maybe) rather than a bench role on a rebuilding team. My guess is Texas is hoping some NL team needing a DH will take Davis off their hands.
  6. The new GM didn't waste any time. Looks like he's still carrying on Daniels' penchant for acquiring pitchers with alliterative names: Mike Minor, Lance Lynn, Brock Burke, Corey Kluber, Dane Dunning .....
  7. Minasian was a Rangers batboy. His dad was the clubhouse attendant there for years. He once yelled at me for blocking a doorway, the prick.
  8. My grandparents lived in Tioga, TX where Gene Autry was born and raised before moving across the river into Oklahoma. The Rangers hadn't moved to DFW from DC yet so my grandfather followed the Angels because of the Autry connection ... and Nolan Ryan. So it just kind of rubbed off on me, I guess. As a kid I met lots of old timers who knew Gene (or claimed to know him) and few of them had anything good to say about him, or at least about his family. Apparently the town doctor, who was probably the most respected and well-loved guy in town, and was still alive at the time, was never paid for delivering Gene, and that was a really big deal to those people. In the mid-70's they tried to get Gene to return for some kind of centennial celebration and he said he'd be honored to -- as long as they changed the name of the town to Autry Springs. They told him to fuck off.
  9. I don’t think that’s water. My guess is it’s the ground up coconut shells and sand and bits of recycled tires they pack into artificial turf now. It does kinda look like water flying up though, especially when the ball bounces or an outfielder tries to make a sliding catch.
  10. Only places I’ve never seen a game are Seattle, Arizona, Atlanta and the two in FL. Haven’t been to new Yankee, Mets or Nats but did see games in old Yankee, Shea, and RFK.
  11. So the first official game at Globe Life Field might not even involve the Rangers? Perfectly in keeping with their weird history.
  12. LOL at Clark's shitty grammar. "Players" shouldn't be capitalized in either context.
  13. So the Astros need a new manager. And two guys with strong ties to that club have both become available in the past 72 hrs. What are the odds!
  14. I think it's a good sign for every other team in the AL West that Houston seems intent on hiring the manager before they hire the GM. Seems like such an ass-backward way of doing things. Maybe the plan is to promote an assistant GM who's currently running things but it wouldn't surprise me if Crane and his son take control of every single facet of the org. Hopefully It will be like Angelos running the Orioles into the ground for all those years and it will be glorious.
  15. Mike Minor remembers. After Rangers first baseman Ronald Guzman let a ninth-inning foul ball drop to the ground as Minor was in pursuit of a 200-inning, 200-strikeout season in his final start of the year, then-Red Sox manager Alex Cora questioned the integrity of the play. "I’m just happy our guys are playing the game the right way,” Cora said after the Rangers’ 7-5 win on Sept. 26. The Boston Globe’s Pete Abraham would later tweet: “Mike Minor’s 200th strikeout should have a big asterisk. That was bush. Chasing a milestone that way is unprofessional.” Fast forward to Tuesday -- and one viral ‘Ask me if I care, Pete?’ tweet later -- and Cora is no longer the manager of the Red Sox. Why? Because the Red Sox parted ways with Cora on Tuesday, a day after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred implicated him in the sport’s sign-stealing scandal. In light of the news, Minor fired off the 16th tweet of his Twitter career, his first since the response that went viral in September. “But but he plays the game the right way ... whatcha got Pete?" Minor wrote.
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